In WCF web services (or all web services?), if the client and server times are off you get a security exception.
Can someone explain to me why this is?
It is a pain if you are building client server services and the time has to be accurate?
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I strongly suspect that this is to make replay attacks harder. These are attacks where a legitimate request and/or response captured by an attacker is sent again at a later time.